Wajdi Wali

Wajdi Wali (1 January 1972-18 March 2006) was an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader.

Biography
Wajdi Wali was born on 1 January 1972 in Baghdad, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslims. Wali was a veteran of the Gulf War in the Iraqi Popular Army, but in 2003 he lost his job as a Major when the United States invaded and occupied the country. Wali was given only $5 in compensation for the loss of his job, so he joined the insurgency against the USA with al-Qaeda in Iraq under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. On 18 March 2006, he was killed by the US Marine Corps at the Samawah Oil Refinery in Operation Superbowl.